Maui Pineapple and Global Horizons are expected to go to trial later this year. The AP reporter even got hold of Mordechai Orian, president of Global Horizons, for a comment, noting that Global Horizons is now “defunct.” This raises the question of whether the company would have enough money to pay any compensation to workers that may be decided by the court, should they be required to do so.

For the record, and for Thai-language readers, below is the audio of yesterday’s EEOC press conference unedited. It documents the sad condition of Hawaii agriculture—that it is dependent on cheating foreign workers of their pay in order to operate and profit in Hawaii, the “aloha state.”

Below the audio is a link to four of the documents distributed at the EEOC press conference, copies of the consent decrees. These may not be of interest to everyone, but they do describe, for example, the actions that farms such as Kauai Coffee have committed to that may help avoid labor discrimination in the future.

Download the audio from this link. If the player above doesn’t work, just download and play in your device’s default player.